What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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The Yellowstone Caldera is not overdue for a supervolcano eruption. There is also no evidence that it will erupt in the near future. In fact, data indicates there will not be an eruption in the coming centuries. The most likely eruption would be hydrothermal rather than volcanic. A caldera -forming volcanic eruption (and subsequent impacts on global weather patterns and agricultural production) is the least likely scenario and has an extremely low likelihood. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

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Random shower thoughts:

A talk called "The Modern Web Sucks! Let's Take Back the Web!"

Discuss building small, personal sites. Discuss the old days when we had Angelfire, GeoCities, and other hosting services. Talk about NeoCities. Talk about BBSes, IRC, Gopher, FIDOnet. Talk about webrings. Show people how dead easy it is to set up any of these and how to do it even from small, portable devices.

Whatcha all think?

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RE: mamot.fr/@ploum/11624067791113

Politiques et marketeux d'après @ploum qui n'écrit que ce que tous nous pensons tout bas 👏 Merci 🙏

"... il pourra raconter n’importe quoi. De toute façon, les personnes intéressées par le « fact checking » sont une minorité... "

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Just had a small, probably-never-going-to-happen thought: what if Lobsters implemented ActivityPub? My account there is hongminhee, so I'd get a @hongminhee@lobste.rs actor, and tags like #rust or #programming could be Group actors you could follow from Mastodon or anywhere else. Comments would federate as Notes, so you could boost a thread you found interesting without ever leaving your home instance.

The tricky part is that Lobsters is invite-only by design, and that culture would be hard to reconcile with an open fediverse. You'd probably want to keep writes gated behind a Lobsters account while making reads public. Lemmy did something similar, though it still struggled with spam after federation. Anyway, it's open source, so maybe someone with more time than me will take a crack at it someday.

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We just released Bonfire 1.0.2, an update focused on giving you a more stable and reliable experience.

We're also heads-down working with several communities who are setting up their own Bonfire servers.

Plus updates on end to end encryption and federated groups.

More details: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

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A very nice video by #Germany DW which explains the popular myths about #nuclear fuel management.

https://video.echelon.pl/w/wsYUFCshUjizmqntJ3DVF5

Firstly, it debunks the popular myth that it’s “nuclear waste” - in reality, what you pull out of reactor is 95% reusable fuel, which is reprocessed back into fuel in some countries. Other countries don’t reprocess simply because freshly mined uranium is… too cheap and too abundant globally. Reprocessing especially targets plutonium, which is more valuable nuclear fuel than uranium. Only the remaining 5% is actual waste - isotopes, that are useless from energy point of view and these need to be actually stored underground.

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🫧 socialcoding.. shared the below article:

Introducing tags.pub

Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org

tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server -- it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There's lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub. To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like <a rel="mention" class="u-url mention" href="https://tags.pub/user/example">@example</a> for the #example hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the […]

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おっさんぽしてるとチョウショウバトとかマイナバードとか楽しそうに鳴いてる。「くっくるー」みたいなぴったりのオノマトペを思いつけたい(とりあえず録音する努力をしてみる?集音マイク要りそうよね…

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Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

julian @julian@activitypub.space

<p>This article really resonated with me.</p> <p><a href="https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/</a></p> <p>Especially this part:</p> <blockquote> <p>If you do not understand the ticket, if you do not understand the solution, or if you do not understand the feedback on your PR, then your use of LLM is hurting Django as a whole.</p> <p>Django contributors want to help others, they want to cultivate community, and they want to help you become a regular contributor. Before LLMs, this was easier to sense because you were limited to communicating what you understood. With LLMs, it’s much easier to communicate a sense of understanding to the reviewer, but <em>the reviewer doesn’t know if you actually understood it</em>.</p> <p>In this way, an LLM is a facade of yourself. It helps you project understanding, contemplation, and growth, but it removes the transparency and vulnerability of being a human.</p> <p><em>For a reviewer, it’s demoralizing to communicate with a facade of a human.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Emphasis mine.</p> <p>It puts into words exactly how I feel about the latest spate of AI generated content, and why I push so hard (sometimes offensively so) for the human behind the PR/work to be revealed.[...]</p>

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My single gripe about BetterMouse is that it took me an embarrassingly long time digging to realize that my macOS menu bar was a mess because I had its “Tighten menu bar spaces” enabled.

Can’t blame BetterMouse for me being dull, but I wish it didn’t have that option and I sure hope it wasn’t enabled by default.

Screenshot of BetterMouse Settings panel with emphasis on an un-checked “Tighten menu bar icon spaces” feature whose description reads “An irrelevant feature that may come in handy (…)”
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We just released Bonfire 1.0.2, an update focused on giving you a more stable and reliable experience.

We're also heads-down working with several communities who are setting up their own Bonfire servers.

Plus updates on end to end encryption and federated groups.

More details: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

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